[PEN-L:2680] Duke University's literature department

Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu
Fri Jan 29 11:03:02 PST 1999


Michael,

Interesting. But which kind of "social capital" is Senior's "moral capital" related to anyway? That of Bourdieu or that of Loury-Coleman-Putnam?

And, although the concept may be sort of there, the term "social capital" is not. Barkley Rosser On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:43:40 -0800 Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:


> Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
>
> > 1) Bourdieu was the first to coin the term "social
> > capital."
>
> According to Senior, England was successful because "the intellectual and moral
> capital of Great Britain far exceeds all the material capital, not only in
> importance, but in productiveness" (Senior 1836, p. 134).
>
> By the way is David Yaffe, the same fellow that wrote marxists stuff a few
> decades ago?[
> --
>
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
> Chico, CA 95929
> 530-898-5321
> fax 530-898-5901
>
>

-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu



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